Best Crusaders Poems
Haters and CrusadersHATERS AND CRUSADERS
Standing on the top of the mountain was a hater trying to peak.
Looking down at me he suggest that I better come in out of the cold.
I am a crusader, he was told.
I do not want a pandemic in this manifold.
The hater only...
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Categories:
crusaders, adventure, anger, character, conflict,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
The Stain Crusaders
"The Stain Crusaders"
Plath left the pages long ago
and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue
is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue
dear green green Anthropocene
this much is true
with all the I love you’s
the wandering crusaders
are far far removed
sitting atop their soap boxes
sudsing up all the rooms
the silent stains in the poetic...
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Categories:
crusaders, blue, dark, green, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Jarrow CrusadersThey were strong men of steel
In flat caps and hobnail boots,
hunger pains all they could feel
dressed in Sunday best suits,
poor diet of potato and marrow
no more ships, unemployment high
for folk in northern town of Jarrow,
work needed government did deny,
Petition signed by many thousands...
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Categories:
crusaders, betrayal, character, class, community,
Form:
Rhyme
CrusadersI’m finally ready
discovered it yesterday
while walking on Madison and 74th.
The times of destruction are gone
bending is not breaking
a trip is not always a fall .
A message to haters:We are all crusaders
the higher the walls,the harder we stroke...
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Categories:
crusaders, character, courage, endurance, future,
Form:
Free verse